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Dog Blood by David Moody03/02/2011

Location : Cleveland, OH

Mark Tillotsen lives in a small apartment
with his extended family in a city that has become the center for refugees.
To have the opportunity for additional food rations, he volunteers for
rescue operations, going outside of the city limits to retrieve people
not affected by the Change. It's dangerous work, as he has be vigilant
for The Haters, vicious killers that were once family, friends but now
have a single minded purpose to kill the Unchanged. Mark and the convoy
make it to the abandoned office building and begin to load people into
his truck. The effort is going well until Haters are spotted, swarming
toward the office building and the convoy. Soldiers are able to repel the
initial onslaught but cannot maintain security as they become outnumbered.
Now, it is a race for survival and Mark is extremely anxious to get back
to the safety of the city.

The Haters seem to smell the Unchanged. They see the convoy arrive and
begin their attack. As they kill, they seem to go into a frenzy, wanting
to kill more. Man, woman, child, it doesn't matter as long as the Unchanged
are wiped out. Into the fray comes Danny McCoyne. While he is a Hater,
he is on a mission. Not so much to kill the Unchanged, but to find his
daughter Ellis, whom he knows is a Hater but has been spirited away by
her mother, who is Unchanged. Danny is driven to find Ellis. Other Haters
want him to find Ellis, as they see the future of their cause to be tied
to child Haters, who are more vicious and more focused than adult Haters.
Dog
Blood, by David Moody, continues
the story begun with his book, Hater. This novel is as suspenseful
and well written as the earlier book. Where it differs is the perspective.
Starting by focusing on the Unchanged, Moody builds the feeling of dread
and foreboding as Mark leaves the safety of the city for the unknown. Adding
to the reader's discomfort, Moody is tightly focused on Mark's perspective
as The Haters begin their attack. You are drawn in the action, a feeling
that is exciting as it is uncomfortable. As the attack continues, you are
really beginning to hope that all of The Haters are wiped out and Mark
returns, alive, to the city.

Not satisfied with this, Moody shifts the focus to The Haters, in general,
and Danny, in particular. Experiencing the attack from Danny's view, it
is a totally different battle.I found that this was a really strange feeling;
earlier, I couldn't wait to see The Haters eliminated, now, witnessing
the attack from a different perspective, you begin to empathize with The
Haters. Moody continues this interesting and effective device by shifting
the focus of Dog
Blood between the two men,
until the exciting climax. An excellent follow-up to Hater, Dog
Blood is hard to put down.